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  1. adverb At what time: When will we leave?
  2. conjunction At the time that: in the spring, when the snow melts.
  3. conjunction As soon as: I'll call you when I get there.
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  • Sukdershan: Anyone has any idea when is the MMA Selangor Branch AGM? —  Planet Malaysia
  • Anyone has any idea when is the MMA Selangor Branch AGM? —  Planet Malaysia
  • No more is it conceivable that when the Greek word baptizoo (to immerse) was used, it meant to cleanse by sprinkling (_rantizoo_), or when the word rantizoo (to sprinkle) was used, it meant to cleanse by immersing (_baptizoo_). —  To Infidelity and Back
  • Sometimes, in the rush and roar of the office, came the memory of her eyes and her voice of assurance What will our comradeship be like, when--when she is Dick's wife?" —  Jewel Weed
  • Abdul could understand a great deal more English than he could speak, and as Michael often repeated the same things in Arabic--when he thought he was addressing Abdul--he soon found the key to much which, without the Arabic translation and constant reiteration, might have escaped his understanding. —  There was a King in Egypt
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  1. Middle English, from Old English hwenne; see kwo- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English when, whan, whon, qvan, qven, qwan, wan, won, hwon, whenne, whanne, hwenne, hwanne, hwonne, wenne, wanne, wonne, wane, wone, from Anglo-Saxon hwænne, hwonne, when, = Old Saxon hwan = OFries. hwenne = Middle Dutch wan = Old High German Middle High German wanne, hwanne, German wann, when, wenn, when, if, = Goth, hwan, when; orig. a case of the interrog. pron. (cf. Gothic (Moesogothic) hwana, ace. masc), Gothic (Moesogothic) hwas = Anglo-Saxon hwā, etc., who? see who. Cf. Latin quum, quom, when, as related to L. quis, who? Greek πότε, when? from same pron. base. Hence ult. whenne, whence.
 

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